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Benchmarks for building extranets and online communities
Benton Foundation, 2003This set of benchmarks is designed to help organisations effectively implement online communities—whether a community of grantees or a community of volunteers or some other collection of constituents.DocumentWorld report on knowledge for better health
World Health Organization, 2004This World Health Organization report highlights the gap between what is known about health and what is actually being done. It reviews the state of global health research and finds it wanting. Poorly functioning health systems are identified as a key obstacle to health improvement which research has failed to address.DocumentFracture points in social policies for chronic poverty reduction
Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2004This paper examines the fracture points in social policy formation, from agenda setting through to policy formation and its legitimisation. The authors query the reasons as to why policy makers may still fail to generate adequate responses, despite having clearly identified severe and widespread problems.DocumentMethodological innovations in research on the dynamics of poverty: a mixed-method longitudinal study in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa
Conference: Q-Squared in Practice: Experiences of Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Poverty Appraisal, May 2004, 2004This technical paper examines the methodology used in the qualitative component of a longitudinal study of poverty dynamics in rural and urban areas of KwaZulu-Natal province in South Africa.DocumentBreakthrough for "the South"?: an analysis of the recognition of farmers' rights in the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 2004This paper looks at the influence of developing countries on international environmental negotiations, specifically at the negotiations around the 7 years of negotiation around the recent International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA).DocumentBiodiversity conservation, communication and language: is English a solution, a problem or both?
Community-Based Natural Resource Management Network, 2004Biodiversity conservation is becoming a global agenda operating on an equally global arena. The name if the game is communication and collaboration across cultures and languages, facilitated by ICTs.DocumentInvestigating social vulnerability in community-based poverty monitoring in Sri Lanka: scaling down to the household level
Poverty and Economic Policy Network, 2004This paper critically examines qualitative research methodologies used for community based poverty monitoring (CBPM), as employed in two case studies in rural Sri Lanka: Hambantota district, located on the south coast, and Batticaloa district located on the east coast of the island.DocumentGlobal action networks: a global invention helping business make globalisation work for all
Journal of Corporate Citizenship, 2003This paper explores what it considers to be a new type of organisation: Global Action Networks (GANs). These networks cross important divides such as developed-developing countries, business-government-civil society, cultures and knowledge disciplines.DocumentCinderella's slipper: sondeo surveys and technology fairs for gauging demand
Overseas Development Institute, 2004This paper reports on the findings and recommendations of the INNOVA project (strengthening technology innovation systems in potato-based agriculture in Bolivia). Sondeo (informal) surveys were carried out in three smallholder communities in Bolivia, to gauge the implicit demand for agricultural technologies.DocumentStrengthening public safety nets: can the informal sector show the way?
International Food Policy Research Institute, 2001Development practioners and policymakers have increasingly turned to the issue of vulnerability as both a symptom and a source of poverty.Pages